Hundreds of spy novels premised on secret German plots to ... who curdled his blood. In his fiction, Western and Eastern spycraft mirror each other, the methods equivalent and ultimately corrupting.

Forsyth was also a Royal Air Force pilot, reporter, and secret agent who wrote around twenty novels that have sold over 70 ...

In “Counterfeit Spies,” Oliver Buckton shows that confusing fact and fiction is the first task of spies and second nature for novelists. Spy novels are procedurals. They create plausibility as ...

As a genre, espionage was first born from literature, where spy novels and spy fiction grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, alongside increasing globalization and imperial force ...

Spy thriller legend Frederick Forsyth, known for 'The Day of the Jackal', dies at 86. His gripping, realistic novels changed ...

But when Frederick Forsyth returned from Africa—he had been covering the Biafran war in Nigeria as a journalist—he had no ...

Spy fiction first surfaced in the 19th century ... to new heights when he began publishing a series of widely read spy novels centred around German spies operating in Europe in the years leading ...

Forsyth published 14 novels, many of them bestsellers, and sold over 75 million copies worldwide. His books were frequently ...